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The religion toward which the edict pillars erected by Emperor Asoka showed devotion.
What is Buddhism?
100
The Mayan urban center containing pyramids, temples, and royal processional roads.
What is Teotihuacan?
100
The favorite building material of Japanese architecture, emphasizing simplicity and the incorporation of nature.
What is wood?
100
The term for the form of African art that was abstract and used primarily during religious ceremonies.
What is conceptual art?
100
One of the earliest and most monumental structures in Chinese architecture, circa the 3rd century B.C.E.
What is the Great Wall?
200
The civilization in which Indian art and civic planning emerged in the 2nd half of the 3rd millenia BCE.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
200
The first Central American culture to develop the calendar and a system of writing.
What are the Olmec?
200
The school of wood-block printing style popular during the Edo period of Japan.
What is Ukiyo-e?
200
The culture which produced free-standing ancestor figures in an abstract style which stressed the torso shape.
What is the Dogon culture?
200
What is considered by the Chinese to be the highest art form in existence.
What is calligraphy?
300
The temple style developed in southern India and characterized by series of terraces each symbolizing individual divinities.
What is the Dravida style?
300
The Central American culture known for its stylized artistic depictions of human sacrifice.
What are the Aztec?
300
The Japanese word for a painted scroll with an illustrated narrative.
What is emakimono?
300
The African religion that believed in the being as vital energy, not just a living state.
What is animism?
300
The dynasty in which high quality ritual bronzes began to emerge in China.
What is the Shang Dynasty?
400
The period, also called the Golden Age, in which Buddhist art flourished in India.
What is the Gupta Period?
400
The culture known for its unmatched engineering feats such as a network of roads, agricultural terraces, bridges, and several urban centers.
What are the Inca?
400
One of the earliest distinguishable periods of Japanese art, consisting of monochrome pottery, lacquered objects, and small clay figurines.
What is the Jomon period?
400
The culture known for hemispherical kifwebe masks carved from wood.
What is the Baluba culture?
400
Buddhist structures derived from the Indian stupa as early as the 6th century.
What are pagodas?
500
The animating breath of life represented in many early Indian works.
What is Prana?
500
The culture which created ceramic head portrait vessels, considered the highest point of realism in pre-Columbian art.
What are the Mochica?
500
The central building of Japanese Buddhist temples.
What is the honden?
500
The name for the disc-headed fertility dolls of the Ashanti culture.
What is akua'ba?
500
The painting technique used in Chinese art after the 5th century which employs little color in a moody atmosphere.
What is the ink monochrome technique?